The Sydney tradie picked the spider up 'like a crab', and calmly set it free. Picture: FacebookSource:Facebook

THE 30-year-old concreter posted a photo of him holding the huge spider on social media, asking Facebook followers what species they thought it might be.

Mr Ayoub was pumping concrete on an Oyster Bay property in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire on Wednesday, when he felt the spider believed to be a tarantula, crawling on his skin.

“I felt it crawling up my arm and seen it when it was near my shoulder. I’m not easily scared but was a little freaked about the size of it,” Mr Ayoub commented on the picture of the monster creepy crawly.

In a calm (and extremely gutsy) manner, Mr Ayoub calmly picked the spider off his shoulder and pulled out his phone.

“I grabbed it from the back like you would grab a crab,” he said.

The Australian tarantula, also known as the Barking Spider or Bird Eating Spider is not typically aggressive but, if provoked, will attack. Their body can grow to six centimetres in length with a leg span of 16 centimetres. They have a pretty nasty bite that can cause severe illness and nausea for up to eight hours after.

Their fangs typically grow up to one centimetre in size. Similar to a snake.

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